With the increase in youth firearm violence in recent years, policymakers have scrambled to develop feasible and effective responses. Over the past decade, officials have initiated numerous local-level interventions, including gun buy-back programs, targeted weapon...
Purpose Past research suggests that Americans arm themselves when they do not trust one another. We reexamine the relationship between social trust and firearm prevalence with improved data and methods. We also control for conditions, including area homicide rates,...
Research Summary Police officials across the United States often claimed credit for crime reductions during the 1990s. In this article, we examine homicide trends in three cities that mounted widely publicized policing interventions during the 1990s: Boston’s...